The Namesake
By Mark Hennessy - 12.04.2007 / 00:00 CET
Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, a senior Cabinet minister now for a decade, is a man who wants to be Prime Minister. In fact, he very, very much wants to be prime minister. His ambition, which can sometimes lie only clumsily hidden, may soon come to greater prominence as Ireland begins to consider life after his namesake, but no relation, Bertie Ahern, who has held the top job since 1997.
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Fact file
The CV
1955: Born, Drogheda, County Louth
1976: Qualifies as a solicitor
1987: Elected to Irish parliament
1988: Assistant government chief whip
1991: Government chief whip and junior defence minister
1992: Returns to backbenches
1997-2002: Minister for community, social and family affairs
2002-04: Minister for communications, marine and natural resources
Sept 2004:– Foreign minister
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